I’ve been wanting to learn scheme. I think this would be a good opportunity!
Question: should I go with Racket or Chicken Scheme?
Advent of Code 2018
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#22Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
What I wonder is why can't I just create an arbitrary username unlinked to email or anything else? This isn't a bank account we're talking about. Oh right, because they're probably gathering personal information, which is why they want access to my Google or other accounts. I guess since they appear to have a "reddit" auth option and I think reddit still lets you create arbitrary usernames, that would be a two step p…
Onec you implement your own Auth you are liable for the all the risks storing personal information comes with.
And accusing someone of storing personal data without any substance is something that I don't consider to be in the HN spirit.
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#23Excited for this year's version. I did last year's event in OCaml which was a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. Still trying to decide what language to use this year.
I'm going to do Rust.
Gonna try using rust this year as well. I have no background in rust at all so I'm a bit excited for the extra experience of trying a new language.
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#24Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
If you store an email, you're liable for GDPR controls, IIRC. Why expose yourself to that liability if you don't need to?
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#26I'm exited to dust off my Elixir skills. Jose Valim (creator of the language) is going to stream solutions on Twitch on a one-day lag.
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#27is there a way to get an email reminder to do the task every day?
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#28I'm really excited for this year's AoC, and trying to get other devs at my work involved too! Last year I tried to solve at least the first few days in a bunch of different languages, doing Red/Green TDD so I could learn how to set up a basic project and do tests in languages I was less familiar with. Still trying to decide if I should take that approach again this year or focus on getting every day done in a single…
That's what I did too and my original plan was to use 25 different languages throughout the month. However as the puzzles got harder, I found there just wasn't enough time in the day. I'm sure the puzzles remain easy for some, but for me personally they got challenging even in the languages I already know.
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#29I have been pretty interested in ReasonML / Ocaml lately, these puzzles are a great oppertunity to get to grips with the basics of a language.
Shamelessly plug, I created a repository for storing solution written on Sketch.sh here: https://github.com/Sketch-sh/advent-of-code-2018
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#30Excited for this year's version. I did last year's event in OCaml which was a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. Still trying to decide what language to use this year.
Interesting choice. What made you want to learn Ocaml?